Think before you act: it's not your money.

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

Think before you act: it's not your money.

Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

All good management is the expression of one great idea